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Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems : Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim
Overview
Published within a decade around 2000, Kathryn Bigelow's Hollywood film Strange Days (1995), Karen T. Yamashita's novel Tropic of Orange (1997), and Larissa Lai's novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) are aesthetically intricate, speculative fictions, passing perceptive critique on current political-economic discourses and their subtle reconfiguration of race, class, and gender. This study focuses on these three North American fictional texts whose dystopian near-future scenarios expose the significance of risk as a new rationality of governance. At the same time they illustrate neoliberal speculation as a new paradigm of subject formation at a hyper-capitalist, millennial Pacific Rim.
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- ISBN-13: 9783837624168
- ISBN-10: 3837624161
- Publisher: Transcript Publishing
- Publish Date: July 2014
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 300
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